Tuesday, 27 October
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13.00 - 14.30

Scandinavian panel: Advancing the production, accessibility and use of systematic evidence syntheses
Highlighting examples from the Scandinavian countries, with three centres that represent social work and two that represent the education sector. A main goal is to highlight constraints and affordances in ways of organizing for the promotion of evidence use at a national level.
Chair     Rigmor Berg, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Assessment of social services in Sweden – learning from 33 years of health technology assessment
Knut Sundell, Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
Enhancing research based teaching – the Swedish case
Camilio von Greiff
Swedish Institute for Educational Research
Systematic reviews for the Education sector - engagement to enhance relevance and use
Erik Ruud and Elaine Munthe
University of Stavanger, Norway
Producing and disseminating systematic reviews: Experiences from Denmark
Jens Dietrichson
VIVE, Denmark
Contributing to evidence-informed policy the Norwegian way: perspectives from the production side
Rigmor Berg
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Discussion: Working with funders, commissioners and other agencies, and enhancing the use and uptake of evidence syntheses
All panelists

15.30 - 17.00

International development and evidence gathering in the age of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore particular challenges of evidence gathering. Generating high-quality evidence that is easily digestible takes a long time, which seems incompatible with the pace this pandemic demands. Selected systematic review authors will introduce their reviews, covering a range of themes. The objective is to invite reflection on how timelines of time-intensive synthesis work could be shortened to be able to respond more quickly to emerging crises. We will also discuss how best this evidence could be disseminated to ensure the widest possible reach to stakeholders.
Chairs     Marie Gaarder, 3ie and Peter Tugwell, University of Ottawa

Plastics in the food system: human health, food security/economic and environmental impacts: An evidence and gap map
Joe Yates
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Policies and interventions addressing gender-related barriers to girls’ school participation and learning in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the evidence
Stephanie Psaki
Population Council, USA
Panel discussion
Moderator:
Maren Duvendack
University of East Anglia, UK